Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread

From	"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread
Date	2012-03-11 18:25 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 11.03.2012 15:01, Miles Bader wrote:
>
> Certainly Alf's original complaint was phrased generally (though
> against QP in particular, not against using MIME).  But he then later
> explained that he was annoyed because thunderbird was showing the
> paragraphs in the complained-about article as long unwrapped lines.
> Of course, that has nothing to do with QP, but how the original sender
> formatted his article (prior to it being encoded by his software).
>
> Anyway, I'm not really even sure what the actual argument is
> anymore....  [Nothing to do with C++, that's for sure!  :]

First and foremost the case against QP on news is just that you *can't 
expect* QP to work on news, because (1) QP really sucks, and (2) 
therefore, it was not supported for news articles until September had 
already been going on for a long while, and therefore, (3) newsreaders 
such as Thunderbird don't support it properly, causing real problems.

But it's also about other things such as readability where QP is not 
supported, and the sheer idiocy of gobbledegook-encoding text that would 
be all OK without that extra and needless encoding.

This should not be hard to understand or remember. However, in the old 
days Microsoft fanboys often trolled by posting with QP and VCard info. 
Then the *nix and fanboys responded by posting with digital signatures. 
The Microsofties' QP postings appeared broken in the *nix fanboys' 
newsreaders. The *nix fanboys' postings did not appear at all in 
Microsoft's Outlook Express (now Windows Mail). So it was a bit of fun 
for while, both sides had a technical means to at least frustrate the 
other side a little. Still, anyone posting today with QP, or with 
digital signature, is either clueless, or a troll, or has no tools.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-07 14:36 -0800
  Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 02:04 +0100
    Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-08 11:54 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 21:41 +0100
        Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-08 13:56 -0800
          OT: Free Usenet Access red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2012-03-08 16:09 -0800
            Re: OT: Free Usenet Access Christopher Pisz <someone@somewhere.net> - 2012-03-09 10:26 -0600
          New Google Groups problems (was Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-09 12:27 +0000
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-04-21 23:43 -0500
            XSUsenet.COM  @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-21 22:12 -0700
        Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 05:12 +0900
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 00:00 +0100
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 08:40 +0900
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 08:42 +0900
              MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-10 07:04 +0000
                Re: MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 16:56 +0900
                Re: MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 07:37 +0000
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 10:44 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-10 14:43 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 21:17 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 10:49 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 07:11 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 19:03 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 11:49 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 23:01 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:25 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 23:53 +0000
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Mike McCarty <mcmccarty@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 05:47 -0800
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-10 19:51 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 21:23 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-11 14:36 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:33 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-11 20:41 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 21:49 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 17:18 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:39 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:54 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2012-03-12 19:03 +0100
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 17:09 +0000
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-11 01:26 +0000
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 11:18 +0900
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-11 16:41 +0000
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-08 23:07 +0000
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-03-08 23:17 -0600
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Stuart Redmann <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-03-10 05:10 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-10 05:42 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-04-21 23:20 -0500
  Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:25 -0700

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